diff -r c58c4683e2b7 -r a58378983687 mercurial/help/config.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt	Wed Feb 03 16:00:00 2016 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt	Fri Feb 05 19:40:57 2016 +0100
@@ -2022,7 +2022,7 @@
 ``backgroundclose``
     Whether to enable closing file handles on background threads during certain
     operations. Some platforms aren't very efficient at closing file
-    handles that have been written or appened to. By performing file closing
+    handles that have been written or appended to. By performing file closing
     on background threads, file write rate can increase substantially.
     (default: true on Windows, false elsewhere)